The biggest issue for me isn’t broken mirrors or or failed motors or dead FOBS. It’s leaving my house without my damn phone. Try it. It’s amazing. I absolutely don’t want my phone acting as a key to me vehicle. Beyond all the security risks, these cars will be around for decades while phones are constantly updating.

1) A servo is just a more complex electric motor. More complex is generally less reliable.

Folding mirrors. Those have never failed me.

There was that older guy who died in his Corvette just outside a restaurant who couldn’t figure out where the emergency door release was on his button-opening door Vette when his battery died. The “recognition only” feature does raise the question of how emergency responders are going to get people out of the…

I almost bought a Mach-e last Saturday. I played with the door handles. They are stupid. They were a shameless rip-off of Tesla (and I hate Tesla).

There are all sorts of different takes one can have, but this is a shit one.

It’s funny how attached he is to being able to open doors.

I’ve never had a broken door handle or mirror on a car I’ve owned, but I have swore repeatedly at my kitchen trashcan while I wave my hand at the proximity sensor that worked fine 2 mins ago. I love the idea of hiding the handles, but that doesn’t remove the most basic requirement that I want the fallback to be able…

Wrong.  When the battery dies you are locked out. 

It’s funny that you are so attached to door handles, when car designers don’t even include them or side mirrors in their designs - engineers add them later. 

just as an FYI, people have died from getting locked inside their cars with electrically actuated door lock mechanisms because the battery died and they didn’t know where the manual release was.

Things that are inside are more reliable that things outside? Number of cars I have broken a door handle on, 1. Number of cars where a window motor went out, 5. It really doesn’t matter where it is placed, a simple lever will be more reliable than a sensor.

A couple years ago Elon asked on twitter what features people would want in the cybertruck. As a tradesman I listed off a bunch of things that would make the truck sell at an insane rate and completely destroy the big 3s commercial light duty market. Fast forward to the cybertruck announcement, and he did the exact…

What if I told you that “zero gravity” on the “spaceship” called the ISS only exists because it’s constantly falling towards earth...

Every orbiting astronaut feels 0g through falling.

Definitely a big selling point for the F-150, too. $32k after tax credit for ~115 kWh of batteries?! And there’s a truck attached!

“e-bikes for most personal trips (to say nothing of public transit)“

Calling him out for... discussing a video that is about a Tesla. Which is an accurate discussion of what occurs in the video.

I don’t even know why it is tied to one’s tax obligation - people’s tax situations vary wildly. It should be lopped off the purchase price directly. I just placed an order for a Model 3P and fully accept that I didn’t need the EV credit to entice me to purchase it - sure, selfishly I want more money in my pocket like…

A person complaining about Jalopnik posting a Tesla article -